Email still Forwarding after Account deletion

Question

We let go of an employee over a year ago, at which time I set up a email forwarder in Workgroup Manager. We now have deleted this user account, but email is still being forwarded when email is sent to this user.
Anyone have any idea how I might fix this? Or anyone having the same problem. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi Paul
I used the following instructions under OS X 10.4 and it work a treat...
Deleting OS X 10.4.x Server mail users
This documentation is based on a Mac OS X 10.4.x Server install
Before the proper steps can be taken to delete a mail user a onetime change must be made to the imapd.conf file.
Open /etc/imapd.conf via your favorite text editor. (I like using BBedit over SFTP connection).
The first line of the file should contain a list of admins, and you should see cyrusimap in there already. You need to add the shortname of an administrative user on your
server to the end of that list. IMPORTANT: You must also enable mail for this administrative user. I added the admin user that I create whenever I setup an OS X server.
It should look like this:
admins: cyrusimap, admin (be sure to separate user short names with a comma) **save the changes, and they will take effect immediately
The next set of steps will be used for the actual deletion of the mail user and its mail data, and is dependent upon having direct access to the terminal on the server itself or ssh access from a remote machine. You will use the shortname of the administrative user entered into the imapd.conf wherever you see admin.
1. In the terminal type:
cd /usr/bin/cyrus/admin/ (do not replace this instance of admin with your administrator short name)
su admin ./cyradm (this may prompt you to enter your password for the admin user)
2. Now you're in the Cyrus Admin terminal and your prompt should be: cyradm>. Now we need to tell the Cyrus Admin tool which server to administer, so type:
connect localhost (this will definitely ask you for your admin password, it may also ask for an IMAP password, which is the same)
3. Now your prompt should be: localhost>.
Use the lm command at the prompt to show you the list of user mail folders.
Before you can delete a user's mail folder(s) you must give your admin user permission to access and delete the user's mail. Let's say the user I want to remove has a shortname of testuser, you would type:
sam "Other Users/testuser" admin all (this will give admin permission to testuser's mail folders and sub mail folders)
dm "Other Users/testuser" (this will delete testuser's actual mail folders and sub folders from the filesystem)
exit (this will leave the Cyrus Admin terminal and your normal command prompt will return)
4. In the Server Admin tool goto Mail -> Maintenance -> Accounts and verify that the deleted user no longer exist in the Accounts list. You may need to press the Refresh button before the account deletion is viewable.
5. Now you may delete the user from the Workgroup Manager.
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